As the title says, Siegrun has asked me to post a list of her books that she'd like to give away. The list is as follows (desc = descriptive notation):

British Chess Mags 1994/5; some other mags
Fischer: My 60 memorable games (desc)
Forbes: Polgar sisters
Keene: Aron Nimzowitsch
Niemzowitsch: The Praxis od my system (desc)
Károlyi: Judit Polgar
Kasparov: My great predecessors IV
Motwani: H O T Chess
Gerzadowicz: Journal of a Chess Original
Gerzadowicz: Thinker’s Chess
Bologan: Selected games
Shirov: fire on board
Reti: Masters of the chess bd (desc)
Kmoch: Rubinstein’s masterpieces (desc)
Tartakower: 500 Master Games (desc)
Abrahams: Technique in chess (desc)
Ilyumzhinovaris…
Keene: How to beat Kasparov
Pandolfini: Principles of the new chess
Littlewood: How to play the middle game (desc)
Philips: The chess teacher
Walker: Test your chess
Kostyev: 40 lessons
Hodgson: Attack with Julian
Avni: creative chess
Avni: The GM’s mind
Avni: Surprise in chess
Taulbut: How to play the ruy lopez
Barden: The ruy lopez
Schiller: Complete defense to King Pawn openings

Please send her an email if interested.

Hi Folks,

Remember SNCL is on 24/2/13

I would appreciate getting all trophies back so that I am sure they are in my hands for prize giving in March.

EVERYONE look in your cupboards, attic, whatever and get the trophies found!!!!!!!!

GG

From the organisers of the European Senior Championships to be held in Plovdiv in March -

You have a nice opportunity to visit Bulgaria this summer as we have chain of tournaments -Bulgarian Chess Summer in one of the best Black sea resorts and very attractive prize funds.

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Best regards,
Central Office
ESCC 2013

Incidentally five of our senior players are registered for the Euro Seniors.

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I have decided to write my biography for the archives while I can still remember - it's currently 8 pages and I have just realised what debt I owe to Walter Munn, Stewart Reuben, Gerald Bonner and many others who organised these:

Look at this list - all disappeared - are there others ?

Langside Hall junior tournaments
Renfrewshire Open
Glasgow Chess Club and their open tournament
Lloyds Bank International
World U-26 Team champs
World Student Team champs
ARC Young Masters
a competitive Glasgow Schools League
a competitive Scottish Boys Championship
Glasgow Herald U-19 Championships
Glasgow League A K Miller team handicap
Renfrewshire county championship
Scottish county championship
A 14-round Olympiad

Perhaps instead of spending energy on this noticeboard those with time could organise a tournament

I have a few (a lot!) of questions...hopefully someone will have the time, knowledge and forebearance to answer them

...If someone were to lodge an official complaint (let's say, for example, about decisions pertaining to a recent Richardson Cup match) who would deal with this within CS? The Standards Committee? An arbiters committee? Someone else?

-Would the complaint be made 'public' or would it be kept internal?
-Would the other team involved be told exactly what the complaint was even if the complaint wasn't specifically against them?
-Would the other team have to comply with any questions asked of them pertaining to the complaint if they weren't told what the complaint was?
-Would there be any way of annulling/reversing/or in some other way re-determining the result of the match in question if a decision was reached upholding the complaint?

-Does anyone have a copy of (last week's?) Scotland on Sunday column by Dougie Bryson? Apparently the column mentioned the match/complaint?!

Could Dougie or someone else post the text of it here perhaps (if I promise to be more religious about buying the paper in future! (I actually stopped buying it because every week I 'had' to read how great hunting/fishing/shooting is by some bloodsport enthusiast

Any help or answers would be much appreciated,
Cheers,
Andy Burnett
(Wandering Dragons CC)

...and preventing further discussion is worse than the subject matter.

I'm sure we would all have kept it all above board and clean.

Now we will have to restrict it to PM's or are those too subject to Big Brother.
My Dad fought in a world war for freedom of speech.
(OK he ended up being on the losing side but that is another story.) =)

Kevin gives a link to Chess Scotland from his site.
Maybe this is what Andy meant (but never got the chance to explain.)

I agree with you Andy, some bits are unchess like, He gives an email address.
Perhaps we can ask him to post a polite warning on his site that some of the contents may offend.

I would just like to thank the individual who has allowed Edinburgh University to defend the BUCA title this year by donating the entry fee... It's really appreciated. The event takes place next weekend (16th-17th).

The team we're sending is: Boris Mitrovic, Gabriel Petesch, Clément Sreeves, Jonathan Edwards, Hamish Olson. Each team member will play four out of the five rounds.

On another note... I was wondering people's opinions on us all being forced to become ECF members in order to participate in the event. We almost boycotted the event on the basis that in order for it to be ECF rated we each have to pay £12 (so £60 for the team). Well, we don't want it ECF rated! British Universities??? More like English Universities.

I meant to write/ask about this a while back but got side-tracked. Another topic referencing his blog reminded me of it just now.

Am I alone in finding half of Spraggett's blogs just plain offensive (pornographic/ foul language/etc.)? Should CS be advertising this site with a direct link? I know the internet has infinitely worse things floating around, but we wouldn't link to those either!

Hi, if you want to enter there are still a few places left.

Either e-mail or phone me, only 5 entries have come by post the rest either e-mail or phone.

Michael.

Just wondering what peoples favourite chess games/puzzles/whatever were - doesn't have to be anything amazing or anything flashy (although I wouldn't complain!)? Also curious as to how much of peoples reason for playing chess is the aesthetics and how much is competition or other stuff? For me a huge part of the game is about the beauty of it (although I am also pretty competitive about it).